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VA GOP Names Loony as Black Outreach Person

Apparently the Virginia Republican Party doesn’t think they look quite crazy enough for nominating Ken Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson for governor and lt. governor respectively, so they’ve now named Rev. Joe Ellison as their “Director of African-American Engagement.” Ellison is so crazy that he believes the big earthquake in Haiti a few years ago was caused by voodoo.

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I’m getting seriously scared of Virginia. Are they just ahead of the curve on the effects of the Tea Party rise on the state level? I know Michigan gets pretty far out there, too, but this is just nuts.

Unfortunately, a simple majority of my fellow Virginians don’t actually pay attention to what the candidates do or say…they just watch the commercials that talk about jobs, flags and apple pie. The GOP in Virginia knows this, so the commercials tend to carefully avoid these types of issues. It’s about 50/50 if the democrats will include the crazy shit of the GOP nominees in their commercials.

As I recall, the voodoo-earthquake linkage was a claim that, by embracing voodoo, the Christian god became very unhappy with Haiti. There was also the factor (IIRC) that embracing voodoo went hand in glove with the original Haitian revolt against France.

That there are two significant fault lines that have–historically–generated quite large earthquakes pretty much goes right over the heads of the people that make such claims.

Remember, this is something that fundie nutcases think. No rational thought applies.

Remember, this is something that fundie nutcases think. No rational thought applies.

Yeah, I know. I said it doesn’t make any sense.

As I recall, the voodoo-earthquake linkage was a claim that, by embracing voodoo, the Christian god became very unhappy with Haiti..

So what did the god soaked of Oklahoma do recently to tick off the gods and get a few tornadoes? Or a few years ago, the ones in Joplin Missouri. Why do hurricanes slam into the fundie heartland so often? And isn’t it odd that the largest wildfire in Colorado history that destroyed 400 homes, hit Colorado Springs, home of a lot of fundie xian organizations.

Now you’re just being silly. The reason tornadoes and wildfires hit the central states is because of Obamacare. If Yahweh had wanted us to have affordable health care, he’d have sent his son done to heal lepers and blind people.